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Rapid deployment prosthetic heart valve

  • US 8,500,798 B2
  • Filed: 05/24/2006
  • Issued: 08/06/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A two-stage prosthetic heart valve, comprising:

  • an expandable anchoring member having opposed ends and an open channel therethrough, and sized to contact a heart valve annulus in an expanded state;

    a non-expandable valve member having a suture-permeable sewing ring on an inflow end configured for connection to the anchoring member, the valve member having a plurality of commissure posts extending in an outflow direction that support flexible leaflets comprising animal tissue therebetween, the sewing ring being sized to seat against or within a first end of the anchoring member; and

    at least one coupling member attached to the anchoring member and extending from the first end thereof over the commissure posts of the valve member so as to secure the valve member to the anchoring member.

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